Evangelical leaders promote ‘orphan care’

DENVER - Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, doesn't do enough for children without parents. No shit.

With backing from Focus on the Family and best-selling author Rick Warren, the effort to promote "orphan care" among the nation's estimated 65 million evangelicals could drastically reduce foster care rolls if successful.

Yet sensitive issues lie ahead: about evangelizing, religious attitudes on corporal punishment, gay and lesbian foster children, racially mixed families, and resolving long-standing tensions between religious groups and the government.

Um, racially mixed families? Has anyone seen America lately? And will they refuse to adopt gay children or demand to return them when they begin to show "signs" of homosexuality?

"In some people's minds, the church has been very pro-life up until the point of birth," said Michael Monroe, who co-founded an adoption and foster care ministry at Irving Bible Church outside Dallas.

Not some asshat, all of us believe this because what HAVE you done???

Monroe continues: "But a lot of people are saying it's not enough to be pro-life, we need to be pro-children, as well."

Again, no shit asshat. The pro-life" stance has only cared about the unborn, never caring for the hundreds of thousands (500,000 in 2005) in the foster care system, the thousands neglected because they were not wanted but were forced into the world because of anti-choice legislation.

Why aren't these Christians concerned with REAL problems? Global warming, famine, AIDS, human trafficking, ethnic cleansing, violence against women...just to name a few. Oh, cause they are pseudo-chrisitians, using wedge issues like abortion and banning gay marriage as their strong hold on the throats of Americans.